A GROUP of campaigners, including deputy council leader Flo Clucas, is hoping to raise money to have statues of three influential women installed in St George’s Hall. Meetings are already under way about the sculptures to commemorate Kitty Wilkinson, Josephine Butler, and Eleanor Rathbone.

Kitty Wilkinson was a Irish immigrant who initiated the first public wash house in Liverpool; Josephine Butler was involved in charity work and helped rescue young prostitutes; Eleanor Rathbone was a social reformer who became the city’s first woman councillor.